Wow. Susan Powter is still very intense after all these years. Remember her “stop the insanity” fitness infomercials from the late 80s? Susan is back video blogging, and she’s taking no prisoners. Watch as she tears apart the fat acceptance movement, in a totally loving, unapologetic, ass-kicking way.
Your body is a battleground. A lot of big, bad companies stand to make a lot of money from controling you and your body. Both the junk food industry, fashion, and marketing all want to manipulate you into being unhappy and obese, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Loving yourself means to simultaneously reject other people’s body images and at the same time define your own body image for yourself and bust your ass to attain it. It’s not easy.
Again, loving your body means working to make it the best body possible. Self-confidence is sexy. You want to have the best possible life for yourself. Make sure you eat, rest, and exercise in the best ways you can. Be at peace with where you are now, and remember that means working hard to be someplace even better.
Here’s the blog post Susan was responding to in making the video.
FOF #1604 – Susan Powter Fights to Stop the Insanity – 06.15.12
FOF #1727 – Game of Thrones – 01.24.13
FOF #1622 – Bon Voyage Cameron Esposito – 07.17.12
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Susan sure is intense.
I’ve seen some disturbing trends with Fat Acceptance on social networking sites. Mainly that overweight people who claim to be “fat and proud” or whatever ignore the scientific proof out there that goes into great detail of how unhealthy it is to be extremely overweight.
An excuse you hear a lot from FA folks is “it’s my body, you can’t tell me what to do with it” which is true, no one can force you to change your body, but are you really ok knowing that you are slowly killing yourself if you continue to live this unhealthy lifestyle?
As Susan said, I don’t there are hardly any people out there who make the conscious choice to be extremely fat. Most FA folks get to that point of being extremely overweight for whatever reasons, and then when they get the idea in their head that they can’t lose weight, they just accept it, don’t change their eating habits, or exercise.
OK! I got! Now please someone give that woman a doobie to calm down.